Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-7c8c6479df-xxrs7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-03-29T08:37:42.463Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Preface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2010

Geertrui van Overwalle
Affiliation:
University of Leuven, Belgium/University of Tilburg, the Netherlands
Get access

Summary

At present the genetics community is increasingly concerned that patents might lead to restricted access to research and health care. Thoughtful observers are increasingly expressing concerns that the exponential growth of patents claiming human DNA sequences may lead to patent thickets, royalty stacking and, ultimately, to a ‘tragedy of the anticommons’ in the genomic field. An anticommons effect may also arise from blocking patents. Concerns have also been voiced with regard to downstream research as new genetic inventions might not find their way into products and a translational gap might emerge.

In an attempt to capture and comprehend these recent developments, and to reflect on potential remedies, the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights of the University Leuven (Belgium) organised a two-day international workshop on ‘Gene Patents and Clearing Models: From Concepts to Cases’ on 8–9 June 2006. This workshop took place in the framework of a research project on ‘Gene Patents and Public Health’ sponsored by the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO, Belgium – Grant number G.O120.04), EuroGenTest (a Network of Excellence set up under the European Union Framework Programme 6 – Contract number 512148) and the Vancraesbeeck Fund (K.U.Leuven, Belgium). For the research that led to the workshop and the present book, as well as for the workshop, we are very grateful to those organisations.

The workshop aimed at exploring models designed to render patented genetic inventions accessible to further use in research and to diagnosis and/or treatment in further depth, and to investigate alternative models.

Type
Chapter
Information
Gene Patents and Collaborative Licensing Models
Patent Pools, Clearinghouses, Open Source Models and Liability Regimes
, pp. xxiii - xxiv
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×